Movie trivia

Love Sarah (Thursday) The title character of this heart-warming drama set in a London bakery is played by Candice Brown (right), winner of TV hit The Great British Bake Off in 2016. Candice doesn’t get to show off her baking skills – her character tragically dies, leaving Sarah’s mum (Celia Imrie) to open her daughter’s dream bakery.

THURSDAY Kill Me Twice

(2019) PG ●

2.20PM, CH5 ★★

A woman fakes her own death to get away from her abusive partner. She starts a new life with her young son using a fake identity, but her problems resurface when her ex tracks them down. Should she go on the run again or finally face up to her troubled past? Thriller, starring Deborah Van Valkenburgh and Jake Allyn.

Love Sarah (2020) 12 u

4.15PM, SKY COMEDY ★★★ Warm-hearted British drama extolling the virtues of tea and cake as balms for the soul. Celia Imrie is the grieving mum who proceeds with the opening of her daughter’s bakery after Sarah dies suddenly. A similar idea to the one in Fleabag, but rather more twee.

A Good Day To Die Hard (2013) 12 u 9PM, ITV4 ★★★

The evergreen action series returns for a fifth outing and, if you keep your expectations low, there’s enough to enjoy. Bruce Willis is John McClane again (above), while Jai Courtney is the estranged son he teams up with to take on the Russian mob.

Split (2016) 15

u

11.05PM, FILM4 ★★★

The second film in M. Night Shyamalan’s dark, three-part twist on the superhero genre – beginning with 2000’s Unbreakable and concluding with 2019’s Glass. James McAvoy stars as a villain who has multiple personalities, few of them very pleasant.

Seraphim Falls

(2006) 15 u

11.25PM, SONY MOVIES ★★★

Cerebral western starring Pierce Brosnan and Liam Neeson as the men in the big country. Intent on revenge for a past wrong, Neeson hunts down Brosnan, and the duo embark on a fight to the death in a landscape as unrelenting as Neeson’s thirst for vengeance. Mrs Brown’s Boys D’Movie (2014) 15u 11.30PM, BBC2 ★★★

Brendan O’Carroll’s blarney hits the big screen as potty-mouthed mammy Agnes Brown (above) fights to save her Dublin market stall from the chop, and evade a hefty tax bill.

FRIDAY Deadpool (2016) 15 u 9PM, E4 ★★★★

Superhero shenanigans for grown-ups – rude, sweary and it doesn’t skimp on the violence. Ryan Reynolds plays the wisecracking mercenary who goes super after trying an experimental cure for cancer.

The Matrix Revolutions (2003) 15 u

9PM, ITV4 ★★★

Expectations were high for this film in the Wachowskis’ visionary sci-fi franchise, which was to be the finale until a fourth film was confirmed. Hugo Weaving (above) stars as multiple tormentors of Keanu Reeves’s hero.

The Butcher Boy (1997) 15

u 9.30PM, RTé2 ★★★★

Eamonn Owens gives an astonishing performance in Neil Jordan’s powerful dark comedy. He plays Francie, a troubled youngster who finds solace in fantasies. Stephen Rea and Milo O’Shea co-star.

The English Patient (1996) 15

u 11.25PM, RTé ONE ★★★★

Anthony Minghella’s Oscar-winning romantic drama stars Ralph Fiennes (below) as a plane-crash survivor in wartime Italy, who recounts the story of his doomed love affair. The Purge: Election Year (2016) 15 u 12.10AM, CH4 ★★★

Another night of masked murder and mayhem awaits in the third film in the horror franchise. This time, no one is exempt from the 12-hour lifting of the law – including anti-Purge Senator Charlie Roan (Elizabeth Mitchell).

Mum’s List

(2016) 12 u

12.35AM, BBC1 ★★★

Based on a bestselling book about the real-life Greene family, this weepy stars Emilia Fox as the mum leaving a trail of wise words for her two young sons when she learns she has terminal cancer. SATURDAY

Smallfoot (2018) PG ●

7.05PM, RTé ONE ★★★★

Channing Tatum and James Corden lend their voices to this animated adventure. A member of a Yeti clan is shocked when he spots a real-life human – but no one believes he is telling the truth.

Mother’s Day (2016) 12 u 9.30PM, RTé2 ★★

An all-star cast, including Julia Roberts, Jennifer Aniston and Kate Hudson, do their best in Garry Marshall’s ensemble comedy. It follows a group of people who find themselves musing on motherhood.

Whiplash

(2014) 15 u

11.15PM, BBC2 ★★★★★

An Oscar-winning JK Simmons is impressively intimidating in director Damien Chazelle’s drama. He plays a music tutor who uses abusive methods to get an aspiring drummer (Miles Teller, above) up to his standards.

Lucy (2014) (15) u 11.15PM, UTV ★★★★

A courier is kidnapped and forced to become a drug mule. When she is exposed to the chemicals she is smuggling, it boosts her intelligence and reflexes to superhuman levels. Sci-fi thriller, with Scarlett Johansson.

American Ultra (2015) 15 u 12.55AM, CH4★★★

Weird and clunky mix of stoner comedy and spy actioner. Jesse Eisenberg (above) is the slacker sleeper agent whose repressed military training is reactivated, causing chaos in his sleepy small town.